Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.

When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!